{"id":36171,"date":"2025-05-09T10:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/36171\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:43:23","slug":"christian-benford-to-throw-first-pitch-at-bisons-game-may-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/36171\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Benford to throw first pitch at Bisons game May 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Bills cornerback\u00a0Christian Benford\u00a0will throw out the ceremonial first pitch on May 16 before the Buffalo Bisons play against the Worcester Red Sox at Sahlen Field.<\/p>\n<p>Benford will celebrate the release of his children\u2019s book, &#8220;Stylish Safari: The Adventures of You,&#8221; a\u00a0book about confidence and self-expression. There will be giveaways of signed copies of the book for those in attendance as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stylish Safari: The Adventures of You&#8221;\u00a0is available in hardcover, softcover and coloring book editions at Amazon.com, Barnes &amp; Noble and Books-A-Million.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Benford <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/rochester\/sports\/2025\/03\/29\/source--buffalo-bills--christian-benford-agree-to-4-year---76-million-extension\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently signed<\/a> a four-year, $76 million contract extension, which runs through the 2029 season. He was\u00a0a sixth-round pick of the Bills in the 2022 NFL Draft out of Villanova.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Benford started 14 games and had 10 passes defended, two forced fumbles, two interceptions and 64 total tackles. For his career, he has 34 regular-season starts in three seasons, five interceptions, 25 passes defensed and four forced fumbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills cornerback\u00a0Christian Benford\u00a0will throw out the ceremonial first pitch on May 16 before the Buffalo Bisons play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[1615,1613,215,13694,214,53,2086,7,88,6,9,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-36171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-bills","11":"tag-brian-campbell","12":"tag-buffalo","13":"tag-buffalo-bills","14":"tag-buffalobills","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114477466220570480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}